Literacy Week 2018

Despite "The Beast from the East", Literacy week was a great success. The children enjoyed shared reading in the morning with parents and playing literacy games in class with their friends. Every class also had a wonderful time at the story teller workshops with Aideen Mc Bride. We celebrated World Book Day and St. Patrick's Day on Friday 16th March.We saw lots of amazing costumes of characters from our favourite books and nursery rhymes, as well as some very patriotic green, white and orange outfits. All of the classes gathered in the hall where each class recited a poem they had prepared for the assembly.

Have a look at some of the pictures below to see all the fun we had during Literacy Week celebrations.

Christmas 2017

Christmas is a busy and exciting time in Scoil Cholmcille Junior. The entire school put on an amazing performance of 'Born in a Barn', over in the church to tell the story of the very first Christmas. All of the hard work and practices paid off and it was a huge success. The following week, all of the boys and girls were surprised by a special visitor in the school yard on Tuesday morning. Take a look at some of the pictures below to see all of the fun we had that day. A huge thank you to the Parents Association, volunteers, teachers and SNAs for making the lead up to ​Christmas in Scoil Cholmcille Junior such a wonderful time of year for everyone.

Recycled Christmas Decoration Competition

The Green Schools Committee held a whole school recycled ​Christmas decoration competition in November. Each class were asked to design their own Christmas decorations using materials that they would have otherwise thrown out.

There were so many amazing creations it made it very difficult to choose a winner. Congratulations to Alex in Junior Infants who made a beautiful Christmas tree bauble using recycled smoothie lids, cut up Tayto bags, old ribbon, Styrofoam and some glitter and sequences to give it that extra festive flare. Alex represented Scoil Cholmcille Junior as our school champion at the Recycled Christmas Decoration Celebration Ceremony at County Hall in Dún Laoghaire where he met An Cathaoirleach Cllr Tom Murphy and received a certificate and prize. Click here to see the RTE News2day feature.

Have a look at some of the other incredible decorations that our students made in our slide show below or if you want to see some of them up close, we have a recycled Christmas decoration display at the main door reception area.

From CDs to toilet rolls. Check out the impressive creations at this year's Recycled Christmas Decoration Competition in Dun Laoghaire @dlrccpic.twitter.com/Ulr1Ic4Sqk

Halloween 2017

We celebrated Halloween and our mid-term break with a whole school assembly and a raffle organised by the Parents Association. There were lots of fun and frightening costumes and first class treated us to a spooky Halloween performance. At our assembly, Ms. Norton presented lots of boys and girls with certificates for perfect attendance since the start of the school year and the parents handed out lots of lovely prizes.​Thank you to the Parents Association for organising such a great raffle and a huge congratulations to all the boys and girls who earned certificates for not missing any days in school so far.

Maths Week 2017

Our whole school had a fantastic time celebrating Maths Week 2017. Despite storm Ophelia forcing a late start to the celebrations, we had a jam-packed week full of fun maths trails, games and activities. A huge thank you to Blackrock Education Centre for letting us borrow the Bee Bots for the week, all of us (teachers and children) had great fun using them in different maths activities. As well as a huge thank you to all staff, parents and students for making Maths Week 2017 such a great success.

Be sure to have a look at our class pages for more pictures and videos of all the Maths fun we had during the week.

Operation Transformation's 10 at 10

On Friday the 10th of February we took part in operation transformation's 10 at 10. The whole school went to the yard for 10 minutes of fun filled dance. It was a great way to get everyone moving and gave the teachers a chance to show off their moves. Take a look at the video.

Music Week 2017

Music week took place in our school from January 16th to the 20th. Ms Wynne organised a wonderful week of musical events and activities. The secret sound and movie clips kept students and staff guessing all week with the children doing considerably better than the teachers!! On Wednesday we were joined by a host of local talent for a school concert. The children were kept entertained with singing, dancing and Irish and classical music performances. On Friday all the classes presented their response to a musical movie clip. The children created some wonderful art, dance and drama which they showcased to the whole school. The week concluded with a whole school performance of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.